A Merry Dialogue Declaringe the Properties of Shrowde Shrews and Honest Wives eBook

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A Merry Dialogue Declaringe the Properties of Shrowde Shrews and Honest Wives eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 24 pages of information about A Merry Dialogue Declaringe the Properties of Shrowde Shrews and Honest Wives.
dyce.  Eulalia Peace saye not so. xan. wel yet thus it is, then when he commeth home to me at midnight, longe watched for, he lyeth rowtyng lyke a sloyne all the leue longe nyght, yea and now and then he all bespeweth his bed, and worse then I will say at this tyme.  Eulali.  Peace thou dyshonesteth thy self, when thou doest dishonesteth thy husband. xantip.  The deuyl take me bodye and bones but I had leuer lye by a sow with pigges, then with suche a bedfelowe.  Eulali.  Doest thou not then take him vp, wel favoredly for stumbling.  Xantip.  As he deserueth I spare no tonge.  Eulalia. what doth he then. xantip.  At the first breake he toke me vp vengeably, trusting that he shoulde haue shaken me of and put me to scilence with his crabid wordes.  Eula Came neuer your hote wordes vnto handstrokes. xantip.  On a tyme we fel so farre at wordes that we wer almost by ye eares togither.  Eula what say you woman? xan.  He toke vp a staffe wandryng at me, as the deuill had bene on hym ready to laye me on the bones.  Eula. were thou not redye to ron in at the bench hole. xanti.  Nay mary I warrant the.  I gat me a thre foted stole in hand, & he had but ones layd his littell finger on me, he shulde not haue founde me lame.  I woulde haue holden his nose to the grindstone Eulalia.  A newe found shelde, ye wanted but youre dystaffe to haue made you a speare. xantip.  And he shoulde not greatlye a laughed at his parte.  Eulali.  Ah my frynde. xantyppa. that way is neither good nor godly, xantippa what is neither good nor godly. yf he wyll not vse me, as hys wyfe:  I wil not take him for my husbande.  Eulalya.  But Paule sayeth that wyues shoulde bee boner and buxome vnto their husbandes with all humylytye, and Peter also bryngethe vs an example of Sara, that called her husbande Abrahame, Lorde. xantippa.  I know that as well as you then ye same paule say that men shoulde loue theyr wyues, as Christ loues his spouse the churche let him do his duete I wil do myne.  Eula.  But for all that, when the matter is so farre that the one muste forber the other it is reason that the woman giue place vnto the man, xan.  Is he meete to be called my husbande that maketh me his vnderlynge and his dryuel?  Eula.  But tel me dame xantip.  Would he neuer offre the stripes after that xantip.  Not a stripe, and therin he was the wyser man for & he had he should haue repented euery vayne in hys harte.  Eulali.  But thou offered him foule wordes plentie, xantip.  And will do.  Eula.  What doth he ye meane season. xantip.  What doth he sometyme cowcheth an hogeshed, somtime he doth nothing but stande and laughe at me, other whyle takethe hys Lute wheron is scarslie three strynges layenge on that as fast as he may dryue because he would not here me.  Eula.  Doeth that greue thee? xantippa.  To beyonde home, manie a tyme I haue much a do to hold my handes.  Eula.  Neighbour. xantip. wylt thou gyue me leaue to be playn with the. xantippa Good leaue haue you.  Eula.  Be as bolde on me agayne our olde acquayntaunce and amite, euen
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